Name: Stiffelio
Start: 2012-04-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2012-04-24T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro Regio

Organization

Singer

Tenor

Roberto Aronica

Stifellius

Myung Hoon Ji

Soprano

Guanqun Yu

Lina

Baritone

Roberto Frontali

Count Stankar

Hayato Kamie

Gabriele Mangione

Raffael

Bass

George Andguladze

Jorg

Cosimo Vassallo

Frideric of Frengel

Conductor

Andrea Battistoni

Stage director

Guy Montavon

Costume designer

Francesco Calcagnini

Set designer

Mezzo-soprano

Lorelay Solis

Dorotea

Lighting designer

Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Others

Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma

Orchestra

Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma

Teatro Regio di Parma

Italian

Stiffelio

Parma

Italy

Teatro Regio

The opera, premiered in Trieste in 1850, about the Protestant pastor Stiffelio, who, due to his wife Lina's infidelity, finds himself in a deep conflict between human lust for revenge and the Christian doctrine of forgiveness, can be described as Verdi's last youthful opera. It was an extraordinarily creative time; immediately afterwards the triad "Rigoletto" - "Il trovatore" - "La traviata" brought the master lasting world fame.
In "Stiffelio" there are arias and ensembles of the best Verdi quality to discover. The work's low profile can only be attributed to Franceso Maria Piave's rather simple libretto - a straightforwardly told story of a family conflict within a small faith community. But if one always judged an opera by its libretto, many a much-performed warhorse would have to disappear from the repertoire...

Stiffelio Verdi

Public

Private

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading